Sundance Natural Foods Company safety record at a glance
Sundance Natural Foods Company has been the subject of 2 Cal/OSHA inspections in California since 2000, opened between Mar 18, 2013 and Dec 9, 2014. 2 of them were accident inspections. All of them produced citations, 9 in all: 2 serious. Inspectors proposed $37,955 in penalties; after appeals and settlements the current total is $25,740. The largest single penalty, $17,780, came from an inspection opened Dec 9, 2014 in Valley Center. That places the employer at #4,494 of 122,854 California employers in the database by penalties. It also appears in 2 federal wage and hour cases.
Industry as coded by the inspecting office: Agriculture, Forestry, Fishing and Hunting. Worksites in Valley Center, Oceanside.
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| Opened | City | Why | Result | Proposed | Penalty | Closed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 9, 2014 | Valley Center | Accident | 4 citations 1 serious | $17,780 | $17,780 | Feb 13, 2017 |
| Mar 18, 2013 | Oceanside | Accident | 5 citations 1 serious | $20,175 | $7,960 | Jan 29, 2016 |
Also recorded as: Sundance Natural Foods CO.
The rules this employer was cited under
- 8 CCR 3203, Injury and Illness Prevention Program: 3 citations, $1,300
- 8 CCR 3425: 1 citation, 1 serious, $16,200
- 8 CCR 4002, Machine guarding, moving parts: 1 citation, 1 serious, $5,850
- 8 CCR 2340.17: 1 citation, $1,300
- 8 CCR 3427: 1 citation, $605
- 8 CCR 3395, Heat illness prevention, outdoor: 1 citation, $485
- 8 CCR 3400, Medical services and first aid: 1 citation
Accidents investigated
Local pages: Oceanside employment lawyer.
How to read this record
Each row is one inspection by Cal/OSHA (or, rarely, federal OSHA) of one worksite. Why is the reason it was opened. Proposed is the penalty the inspector assessed; penalty is the current figure after any appeal or settlement. "Serious" means a realistic possibility of death or serious harm; "willful" and "repeat" carry penalties up to $162,851 each.
Citations document that the employer was told, in writing, what the rule required and when. That knowledge is often the center of a retaliation case: a worker who complained about the hazard an inspector later cited, and was then fired or cut, has a Labor Code 6310 claim, with lost wages and attorney's fees.
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If you work, or worked, at Sundance Natural Foods Company
Write down what you reported, to whom and when, and what changed afterward: shifts, pay, duties, write-ups. Request the inspection file from the Cal/OSHA district office using the activity number on the inspection page. An injury goes through workers' compensation; a firing, demotion or threat after a safety complaint or injury report is an employment claim with a one-year deadline at the Labor Commissioner (Labor Code 6310) and a longer one in court. Free, confidential review: (800) 371-3088 or send what you have.
Source: U.S. Department of Labor OSHA enforcement data, California inspections. Record last checked Nov 1, 2026. Back to the safety tracker.
About this data: Records come from the U.S. Department of Labor's OSHA enforcement datasets (inspection, violation, accident and accident injury tables), which carry Cal/OSHA's state-plan inspections alongside federal ones. We load every inspection of a California worksite opened since January 1, 2000 and refresh it weekly. Employer names, addresses and industry codes are as the inspecting office recorded them; similar names are grouped where they clearly refer to the same employer. A citation can be reduced, vacated or withdrawn on appeal, and an inspection can stay open for months, so a record can change. Penalties shown as "current" reflect the latest status in the federal file. This page is public information about the employer's regulatory record, not legal advice and not a statement that any person was harmed or any law broken beyond what the record states.